Random Thoughts

I am so glad that tomorrow is Monday. It has been a very fun but very hectic last 4 days and I'm ready for some normalcy. I'm ready to get up and pack in a full school day and maybe a nap to boot. We'll see...Hannah was sick last night, she had a fever of 102 but today is fine. I didn't give her anything for the fever because she was going to sleep anyway and we try to not give our kids medicine unless they are miserable. I guess the fever fought off whatever but she was trying to get because she woke up with no temp and has been fine all day. She started with a bit of a cough tonight but still no fever. I really hope that was it. We've managed to avoid both the flu and stomach bug that are running rampant around these parts. But, she did spend all weekend packed backstage with lots of kids carrying lots of germs. The show was great, show weekends are always fun and exhausting. I'm always glad to see them end. The kids and I went shopping to Wal-mart tonight for bunny stuff. We got them Timothy Hay, some interesting food, some bunny treats, and some little plastic balls with bells that some website said bunnies liked. We needed litter stuff but WM was out so I will have to check again on Tuesday. We are good for a day or so. The bunnies are doing well. The kids are having such a blast with them. They definitely have two distinct personalities. Rosie is sweet and calm and Chloe is sweet and adventurous. They were making up some funny songs about them today. Joe isn't into holding them but loves being around them and petting them. The main reason he doesn't want to hold them is that he doesn't want to touch their butt or have their butt touch him. Here is a picture with Grace and Chloe. Chloe was totally relaxed, all stretched out on the couch. These bunnies spend considerable more time out of their cage than in, at least this weekend they did. Tomorrow they will get more cage time though.

This is my latest stack of books in no particular order. I have a very eclectic taste in reading as you can tell. I have my book club book on top, "John's Story, the Last Eyewitness." Book club is Tuesday and I'm only about halfway through the book. The story is okay but not terribly gripping. Next on the stack is "A Song From L'Abri." I love stories from L'Abri. L'Abri is a place in Switzerland or Sweden or some European mountain country. It's kind of a place for people to go to find themselves, find God, etc. I am looking forward to reading this book that I found at a thrift store. Then we have, "Mimosa," by Amy Carmichael. I'm not sure what it is about but I love Amy Carmichael and just had to borrow this from Ollie's mom. Next is "Tales of Beedle the Bard," a Harry Potter book. I am a Harry Potter fan and can't wait to read this. Next is "The Messies Manual," I got this from Ollie's aunt. I need all the help I can get!!! Then we have, "A Clearing in the Wild." I got this from the library, apparently I had requested it but have no memory of requesting it and can't remember why I requested it. I'm curious to start reading this one to find out why I wanted it. The next three I may never get to, they are "self-help" books and I have just read a few self-help books and I don't really even like self-help books so I don't know if I can get into them or not. Two are parenting--Love and Logic and Boundaries. The other one is yet another one about what might be causing my inflammation and joint pain. And lastly we have two that I picked up at the library this week. One is by Joan Aiken and the cover looked interesting. It was actually in the Young Adult books but I usually enjoy young adult books so I may get to reading it. The other is a James Patterson book, "Sundays at Tiffany's." I have only read one other James Patterson book but this one has my name in it so I should read it. I hope to get some serious reading time in this week so I can start wading through this stack. There are 7 other books I'm dying to read but I'd like to get through these first.

Isn't this a cute picture? It's all the grandkids on Ollie's side of the family except for one--Dani. He's in the military and was not there when we were in Chicago. We went to Portrait Innovations and they took about 200 and some odd pictures and in the end there were only 2 that we really liked. It's hard to get 8 kids to cooperate!!

That's it, I'm off to bed to read until I fall asleep. I probably won't make it five minutes!